General Scott eBook

in rank, station, and experience to himself.”
No more fitting close to this sketch of his life can
be given than to quote the words of his friend, General
Wilson: “He has bequeathed to his country
a name pure and unspotted—­a name than which
the republic has few indeed that shine with a brighter
luster, and a name that will go down to future generations
with those of the greatest captains of the nineteenth
century.”

INDEX.

Abadie, Captain, Louisiana volunteers, 101.

Aberdeen, Lord, British Minister, 151.

Abraham, negro, Indian interpreter, 74.

Adams, George, Lieutenant, 253.

Adams, John Quincy, ex-President, 153.

Adams, the British vessel, captured, 13.

Allen, Captain, 17.

Alvarez, Mexican General, 219, 221, 231.

Amatha, Charley, 79.

American forces surrender to General Sheaffe, 18.

Ampudia, Pedro de, Mexican General, surrenders, 155,
156.

Anaya, Don Pedro Maria, General, elected President
of Mexico, 257.

Andrews, Timothy P., Colonel, 226.

Anderson, Robert, General, 135, 322, 326.

Anecdote of Colonel Scott and a Roman Catholic priest,
19.

Armistice violated; General Scott’s letter to
President of Mexican
Republic, 218.